> As an aside, how do you say '8X10'?

"eight by ten".

Not sure why that feels more natural than "10x8", but it does.
Something about the rythym of the sounds, I think (plus the
phrase, "Eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles 
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one describin' 
what it was about," firmly lodged in my brain).  "Ten by eight" 
makes every bit as much sense; it's just not how it comes out
when I say it.

                                        -- Glenn

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